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controlled chaos where you steer with the gas and the rear tires are paying for it
means Sliding a car sideways through a turn on purpose, holding it in a controlled skid by overpowering the rear tires while steering into the slide.
from From the verb 'drift,' which goes back to Old Norse and Old English roots tied to 'drive' — literally a 'being driven,' the way snow drifts or a boat drifts on a current. For centuries it meant moving sideways or off-course with the flow, no one at the wheel. The automotive sense flips that on its head: here the sideways slide is the whole point, deliberately driven. The motorsport term took hold in Japan in the late 20th century, where the practice was refined on mountain passes before spreading worldwide as 'dorifto.'
- origin
- Born in Japan's mountain passes among illegal street racers
- scoring
- Judged on style and angle, not speed
- tire toll
- Pros can shred a full set per run
- physics
- Deliberate oversteer keeps the car sideways through turns
- icon
- Keiichi Tsuchiya pioneered it as the Drift King
ken block gymkhana — professional drifter performed 10 viral gymkhana videos starting 2009
formula drift championship — sanctioned motorsport series held annually in usa since 2004
tokyo drift street racing — underground drifting culture in shuto expressway, tokyo, 1990s-2000s